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Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians ...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Classes are held in dining room

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Classes are held in dining room

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. "Captain" Mary explaining the merits of gyroscope in navigation

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary, the spirit of benovelence, looking at the class from behind her desk

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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Merchant ship officer. "Shooting the sun" with his sextant, this deck officer on a merchant ship typifies the highly competent manpower handling the movement of materials from the home front to the battle front

Merchant ship officer. "Shooting the sun" with his sextant, this deck ...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary demonstrating the use of the sextant in locating one's position by the stars

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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[Johannes Hevelius and assistant using six-foot sextant to measure angular distances between pairs of stars]

[Johannes Hevelius and assistant using six-foot sextant to measure ang...

Illus. in: Machinae coelestis / Johannes Hevelius. Gedani : Auctoris typis, & sumtibus, impremebat S. Reiniger, 1673-1679. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library o... More

[Woman looking through sextant on board the expedition vessel, George W. Elder, with two men and Capt. Peter Doran during Harriman expedition to Alaska, 1899] / Curtis.

[Woman looking through sextant on board the expedition vessel, George ...

61279 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward H. Harriman. No. X417.

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Classes are held in dining room

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Using the sextant in the garden at night

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, Calif. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of boy workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary explaining the intricacies of the ship's compass

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Two midshipmen working with a sextant

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Two midshipmen working with a...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Naval Reserve using sextant - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Naval Reserve using sextant - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain...

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Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, Calif. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort

Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Class member trying his hand at locating the garden by means of the sextant and stars

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Midshipman looking with a sextant

U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Midshipman looking with a sex...

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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service. Thomas Graham, a member of the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles, California, is learning to use a sextant to determine longitude and latitude

Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Boys trained in the fu...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Classes are held in dining room

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Using the sextant in the garden at night

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

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"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. A problem in charting a course takes shape; every member of the class is keenly interested

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Using the sextant in the garden at night

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Annotation on contact print attached to original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Divisio... More

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Class member trying his hand at locating the garden by means of the sextant and stars

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Captain Mary demonstrating the use of the sextant in locating one's position by the stars

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More

High school Victory Corps. Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its pupils for specific contributions to the war effort

High school Victory Corps. Learning how to determine latitude by using...

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States Navy ensign commissions) students in use of sextant, compass and gyroscope and in navigation. Using the sextant in the garden at night

"Captain" Mary Converse, instructing V-7 (candidates for United States...

Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI C... More